Tucson Repertory Orchestra, conducted by Hiroshima born/raised Director Toru Tagawa is travelling to perform in Japan in October.  Toru’s wife and violinist for TRO, Laura Tagawa is seeking help in folding 1000 origami paper cranes to present to the Hiroshima Children’s Peace Memorial.  She was inspired by Sadako Sasaki’s story of the young 12 year old leukemia victim (from the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 8/6/45), who tried to fold 1000 cranes before her death.

9/28/15 UPDATE: Over 1300 cranes have been folded to date, plus several hundred yet to be counted.  So we are still folding cranes till Thursday 10/1/15.

9/30/15 UPDATE: Over 2800 cranes folded, so please show up on Oct. 1 to help string them to take to Hiroshima.  Thank you everyone for helping.

10/1/15 UPDATE:  Group of about 15 friends of TRO strung about 18 strands of cranes – over 1000 plus to date.  Mission accomplished, so good luck to TRO on their concert tour to Japan later this month.

10/7/15 UPDATE: Laura Tagawa reported the final count as 3012 origami cranes were folded & strung, on their way to Hiroshima.  Congratulations all.

If you can help fold cranes please pick up origami paper (3 inches x 3 inches) at Snow Peas Modern Asian Kitchen, 1402 S. Craycroft Rd. Larger sizes will be accepted as well.  Origami folding sessions will be held on September 28, 3 to 5 p.m. and on the final date of crane folding — October 1st, 5 to 8 p.m.

More info on their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/TucsonRepertoryOrchestra?fref=ts